The DSM-IV-TR states that there are two main types of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia and bulimia are extremely serious eating disorders. The word anorexia means loss of appetite, while boulima refers to bulimia and means “hunger of an ox”. “Ninety percent of eating disorder cases occur in adolescent females, this ranges between the ages of 14 and 18.” Eating disorders are associated with altered body image, body weight displeasure, and unhealthy food consumption patterns (Valentina, Markovic, Srdanovic & Mitrovic, 2010, 3). Anorexia is an eating disorder in which individuals have lost more weight than they should have. is considered healthy for their height and age. Weight loss and food intake or lack of food intake are intentional. They are extremely afraid of gaining weight and use specific methods to lose weight. These people overtrain and usually choose the starvation method, with some purging tendencies. There are many negative disadvantages to being anorexic because the average anorexic loses 30% of their average body weight. Many people who do not suffer from eating disorders often cannot control their body weight, so there is no specific weight associated with these eating disorders, but it is generally assumed that being below 85% or the average expected body weight is "too skinny" Bulimic patients, on the other hand, are more of a binge than purge process. Individuals refuse to maintain a normal body weight. Since fear of gaining weight is one of the biggest factors in eating disorders, it is difficult to attempt to help the individual because they will most likely struggle with their obsession with... middle of paper... nic constipation due to excessive use of laxatives. (Valentina, Markovic, Srdanovic & Mitrovic, 2010, 3) While there are some treatments for eating disorders, they don't always work. Treatments primarily include psychotherapies and cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as nutritional counseling and rehabilitation. These individuals have to undergo many counseling sessions to try to point out the essential reason why the individual adapted the eating disorder in the first place, it is difficult to change someone's opinion of themselves, so often even after counseling , very few of these individuals actually change their opinion. eating habits and behaviors. The goals of treatment include helping the patient achieve a specific weight that is healthy for his or her age and height and also addressing any of the individual's psychological problems associated with the disorder.